Bachelor's · Appleton, Wisconsin
Is Fine and Studio Arts at Lawrence University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 17 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $47,598
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $97k (likely $97k – $121k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $7k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 17 years (likely 7.7–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$232k (likely −$337k – −$122k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$141k (likely −$345k – $87k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 79%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh$50,189
- University of Wisconsin-Stout$49,967
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater$49,506
- University of Wisconsin-Madison$48,684
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee$44,788
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire$42,995
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point$42,771
- University of Wisconsin-Platteville$42,271
- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay$41,997
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls$41,705